Then we would sit down at the mah jong table. My table was from my family and was of a very fragrant red wood, not what you call rosewood, but hong mu, which is so fine there's no English word for it.

我的那张麻将台，还是从我老家搬来的，用的是一种质地上乘的红色木料，当然不是你们见到的那种玫瑰木，而是红木。这是一种十分华贵的家具，可惜在英语中，找不到合适的专用名词来表示它。

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